Sarah Catania is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne who released her first single, ‘Venus and Mars’, in 2022 and she’s been steadily releasing singles since then, the latest being the anthemic ‘Front Row’.

A graduate of the CMAA Academy of Country Music, Catania not only made connections with other Academy graduates but returned this year as an intern, an intensive position that also gave her the opportunity to meet Heath Milner, with whom she wrote ‘Front Row’. The song is about having the self-belief to move into the ‘front row’.

‘I've always been quite a confident being,’ she says. ‘So I think “Front Row” kind of embodies those traits that I have as well … I wanted something that could be like a hype song for the girlies because they're the songs that I really am drawn to. And I like putting on in the morning, make myself feel good, get the day started on the right foot.’

Catania has been playing live regularly over the past few years, and her voice has evolved along with her songs.

‘Everything changes all the time,’ she says. ‘Even if I'll watch a video of me performing last year compared to now, I feel like I've changed heaps. It's like this never-ending evolvement and development, which is cool … I can't be anything except myself. I think I'm way too loud and outspoken. If I was trying to fit a mould, you'd know, you could tell.’

Catania currently manages quite a packed schedule – with the aid of a colour-coded Google Calendar, which we discuss! Along with the making of the song and other things, including the video for the song, which features a surprise leading man.

Catania will be performing at the Gympie Muster pre-muster event on 23 August and you’ll also find her at Bridge Hotel in Werribee this Friday, 15 August. She’s also working on a new single release.

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